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QUOTES ON CHANGE



"Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world." (A Course In Miracles)

"The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition." (Abernathy)

"That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along." (Lisa Alther)

"If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place." (Gita Bellin)

"The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance." (Nathaniel Branden)

"Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others." (Jacob M. Braude)

"Change is difficult but often essential to survival." (Les Brown)

"We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped." (Lyman L. Bryson)

"Everything changes, nothing remains without change." (Buddha)

"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me." (Carol Burnett)

"Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely." (Karen Kaiser Clark)

"Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them." (Henry S. Commager)

"People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value." (Stephen R. Covey)

"Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides." (Thomas Crum)

"Don't fear change -- embrace it." (Anthony J. D'Angelo)

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." (Charles Darwin)

"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." (Jimmy Dean)

"We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are." (Max Depree)

"Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires." (Jeff Dewar)

"Change is inevitable. Change is constant." (Benjamin Disraeli)

"The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts." (William O. Douglas)

"Change starts when someone sees the next step." (William Drayton)

"Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there." (Elizabeth C. Dunn)

"Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them." (Owen Felltham)

"No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal." (Marilyn Ferguson)

"When you're finished changing, you're finished." (Benjamin Franklin)

"We must become the change we want to see." (Mahatma Gandhi)

"Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is." (Joan Gilbertson)

"Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow." (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)

"Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

"Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow." (Woody Guthrie)

"There is nothing permanent except change." (Heraclitus)

"Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better." (Richard Hooker)

"Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives." (Trinidad Hunt)

"Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before." (Samuel Johnson)

"For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt." (Kearney)

"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind." (Bruce Lee)

"All things must change to something new, to something strange." (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

"It's the most unhappy people who most fear change." (Mignon McLaughlin)

"Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable." (Menander of Athens)

"People don't change. Only there costumes do." (Gene Moorse)

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." (Reinhold Niebuhr)

"Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life." (Herbert A. Otto)

"I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself." (John Petworth)

"Change yourself, change your fortunes." (Portuguese Proverb)

"I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright." (Anthony Robbins)

"Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent." (Nolan Ryan)

"Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat." (Caroline Schoeder)

"You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to." (Robert H. Schuller)

"A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new." (Rex Steven Sikes)

"Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you." (Marsha Sinetar)

"The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment." (Art Spander)

"A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it." (Herbert Spencer)

"True life is lived when tiny changes occur." (Count Leo Tolstoy)

"Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like." (Mo Udall)

"It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?" (Source Unknown)

"People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all." (Source Unknown)

"Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through." (Source Unknown)

"You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler." (Denis Waitley)

"The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being." (Lech Walesa)

"We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability." (Lynn White)

"He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery." (Harold Wilson)

"Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change." (Kirsten Zambucka)